Can I opt out of AI training altogether?

[CC-signals]

Yes, there will be tools available to express a preference of no AI training. If a creator wants to opt out of AI training altogether, they should: 1) use robots.txt with IETF AI Preferences opt-out when it becomes available; 2) use a technology solution to prevent access; or 3) remove your works from the internet.

CC signals doesn't include its own opt-out preference because the foundation of CC signals, the IETF AI Preferences, already does. Like CC signals, the AI Preferences are still a draft. For more information see the IETF AI Preferences (aipref) working group. There are also technologies designed to prevent AI from accessing content. See this comment for examples.

[CJS-Design]

Because you included 3) this comments reads very arrogant / snobbish. Please communicate better, as this communication style makes me feel very uncomfortable.

[the-gremlin]

The third "option" given here is, to put it mildly, very concerning. The idea that if I do not want my works to be consumed by the AI industry, I should take them off the internet feels like the argument a tech-illiterate person would put forth. The internet is the primary driving force behind the spread of ideas, culture and knowledge and removing one's works from it, not because of any ideological considerations, but because we do not want it to be slurped up by a billion dollar industry is almost insulting. I don't want to remove any of my work from the internet, because as a person who writes software, it is literally the only way to communicate it efficiently and create meaningful discussions with other people who share the same interests with me. What I want is to tell AI to fuck off, not use anything I create for the training of large language models, and then provide it to humans for as long as the platforms that host it stand. This feels so out of touch and almost like a distraction from the actual issues at hand.

[mhughes2k]

It was also noted on the IETF discussions that any regime that expresses preference about usage, can be not observed, due to other higher priority/precedence "rules" (law for example), and that the ai-preferences work is not about really about establishing any legal controls (which also do need to be established)

So mechanically not having on the internet is the a "correct" route...but it is a particularly impractical or dragonian, until both of the above end up being in place. Unfortunately some of these lie under state's purviews :-(